Helen Herrman is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Research at Orygen: The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, and the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

She is Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for mental health in Melbourne, President of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists (2014-2016), and Vice-President of the International Association of Women’s Mental Health.

From 1992 to 2005, she was Professor and Director of Psychiatry in St. Vincent’s Health Melbourne during development of an integrated hospital and community area mental health service under Australia’s national reform of mental health care. In 2001-2002 she was acting regional adviser in mental health for the WHO’s Western Pacific Region.

She has clinical, academic and service development expertise in the fields of community mental health care, the assessment of outcomes and quality of life for people with disabilities, and mental health promotion.